Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 20 Making Holocaust Memory

by Finder, Gabriel N.; Aleksiun, Natalia; Polonsky, Antony

• ISBN13: 9781904113058
• ISBN10: 1904113052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Summary

Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary PolishJewish relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness of the Second World War subsumed the destruction of Polish Jewry within a communist narrative of Polish martyrdom and heroism. Post-war Jewish memory, in contrast, has been concerned mostly with Jewish martyrdom and heroism (and barely acknowledged the plight of Poles under German occupation). Since the 1980s, however, a significant number of Jews and Poles have sought to identify a common ground and have met with partial but increasing success, notwithstanding the new debates that have emerged in recent years concerning Polish behaviour during the Nazi genocide of the Jews that Poles had ignored for half a century. This volume considers these contentious issues from different angles. Among the topics covered are Jewish memorial projec

Table of Contents

Note on Place Names	p. xvi
Note on Transliteration	p. xvii
Making Holocaust Memory
Introduction	p. 3
Memento Mori: Photographs from the Grave	p. 55
The Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, 1944-1947	p. 74
Who Am I? Jewish Children's Search for Identity in Post-War Poland, 1945-1949	p. 98
Jewish Collaborators on Trial in Poland, 1944-1956	p. 122
Auschwitz and the Politics of Martyrdom and Memory, 1945-1947	p. 149
A Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos poylishe yidntum (Polish Jewry), 1946-1966	p. 173
Rachel Auerbach, Yad Vashem, and Israeli Holocaust Memory	p. 197
Holocaust Memorialization in Ukraine	p. 222
Jedwabne and Wizna: Monuments and Memory in the &polishL;Lomża Region	p. 244
So Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland	p. 271
From Silence to Recognition: The Holocaust in Polish Education since 1989	p. 305
What Story to Tell? Shaping the Narrative of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews	p. 318
Bearing Witness: Henryk Grynberg's Path from Child Survivor to Artist. An interview with Henryk Grynberg	p. 324
New Views
'On the Gallows': The 'Politics of Assimilation' in Turn-of-the-Century Warsaw	p. 339
Shabes, yontef un rosh-khoydesh: A Close Analysis of the First Line of Goldfadn's Song	p. 354
Józefa Singer: The Inspiration for Rachela in Stanislaw Wyspiański's Wesele, 1901	p. 360
Introducing Miss Judaea 1929: The Politics of Beauty, Race, and Zionism in Inter-War Poland	p. 368
Shmerke Kaczerginski: The Partisan-Troubadour	p. 392
You from Jedwabne	p. 413
The New Synagogue of Poznań
The Synagogues of Poznań	p. 431
The Dedication of the New Synagogue in Poznań (Posen)	p. 446
Document
A Selection from Part I of Lev Levanda's Seething Times	p. 459
Notes on the Contributors	p. 473
Index	p. 479
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